"Lloyd Webber's fiftieth birthday which was later released on video and DVD. Elaine Paige performed it during a concert produced by The Really Useful Group in Beijing in 2001, which was also released on DVD. Lloyd Webber used the tune a third time for the song ""Love Never Dies"" from the 2010 musical of the same name, which finally served as a sequel to ""Phantom"". In 2000, Telstar Records released ""Our Kind of Love"" performed by Hannah Waddingham, credited on the recordings simply as Hannah. The singles featured tracks from the cast recording of the original London production of ""The"
"would be viable to bring the show to Broadway. It received positive reviews and was No.1 on DVD charts in the UK and Ireland, and did well in America. Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits"
"of which, ""Internet Cafe"" (2002) has also been turned into a movie screenplay. ""Be Worth It"" (2003) was acclaimed by both the Royal Court and the Soho Theatre in London, but perhaps his most successful play is ""Ledgers"" (2003), a one-act comedy taking as its theme the subject of depression and suicide, which has been performed in both the UK and US. Gardner's Micro Fiction has won awards on both sides of the Atlantic, and has featured on the curriculum in a number of US high schools, as well as appearing on the Contemporary English syllabus at the University of"
"composer's usual sung-through fare... One change from the source material that appears to reflect director Prince's sensibility is the aura of danger and darkness that suffuses the piece. It's a tonal choice that not only makes the story more credible, but -- without giving away the true identity of Gaines' character -- it also suits the harsh reality that underlies the children's leap of faith."" It got a huge amount of advance publicity, due to Steinman's popularity as a songwriter and the unusual pairing of Steinman and Lloyd Webber. A reworked, and more successful, production opened in the West End"
"opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 12 July 1993, and ran for 1,529 performances. In spite of the show's popularity and extensive run in London's West End, it lost money due to the sheer expense of the production. In 1994, ""Sunset Boulevard"" became a successful Broadway show, opening with the largest advance in Broadway history, and winning seven Tony Awards that year. Even so, by its closing in 1997, ""it had not recouped its reported $13 million investment."" From 1995-2000, Lloyd Webber wrote the Matters of Taste column in The Daily Telegraph where he reviewed restaurants and hotels,"
"Company and lease the Old Vic theatre. The Company remained at the Old Vic until 1976, when the new South Bank building was opened. A National Theatre of Scotland was set up in 2006. Today the West End of London has many theatres, particularly centred on Shaftesbury Avenue. A prolific composer of musical theatre in the 20th century, Andrew Lloyd Webber has been referred to as ""the most commercially successful composer in history"". His musicals, which include ""The Phantom of the Opera"", ""Cats"", ""Jesus Christ Superstar"" and ""Evita"", have dominated the West End for a number of years and have"
"Lloyd Webber's memoir, ""Unmasked"", was published in March 2018. On September 9, 2018 Webber, along with Tim Rice and John Legend each won an Emmy for Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. With this win, Webber, Rice and Legend joined the list of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards. Lloyd Webber has been accused of plagiarism in his works. The Dutch composer Louis Andriessen commented that: ""Andrew Lloyd Webber has yet to think up a single note; in fact, the poor guy's never invented one note by himself. That's rather poor"". Lloyd Webber's biographer, John Snelson,"
"have met varying degrees of success as the worlds of high art and low art mix. In Russian music, the term ""zong-opera"" (Зонг-опера) is sometimes used, since the first Soviet-Russian rock-opera ""Orpheus and Eurydice"" was described with this term, though the term ""rock-opera"" was already known in the Soviet rock music circles. A rock opera that experienced commercial recording and Broadway success is ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and in respect of which Lloyd Webber said ""the piece was written as a rock album from the outset and set out from the start to"
"of the musical ""Cats"" by Andrew Lloyd Webber, first produced in London's West End in 1981 and opening on Broadway the following year. Eliot regarded ""Four Quartets"" as his masterpiece, and it is the work that led to his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It consists of four long poems, each first published separately: ""Burnt Norton"" (1936), ""East Coker"" (1940), ""The Dry Salvages"" (1941) and ""Little Gidding"" (1942). Each has five sections. Although they resist easy characterisation, each poem includes meditations on the nature of time in some important respect—theological, historical, physical—and its relation to the human condition."
"the United Kingdom. His first compositions developed in the 1930s. In 1942 he married the pianist and violinist Jean Hermione Johnstone (1921–1993). The marriage, which lasted until his death, produced two sons: composer Andrew (born 1948) and cellist Julian (born 1951). From 1945 until the mid-1950s, Webber composed vocal and instrumental music, choral and organ works, chamber music and orchestral works. Works from this period include the oratorio ""St. Francis of Assisi"", the orchestral tone-poem ""Aurora"", the Sonatinas for viola and flute, numerous songs, organ pieces and choral works. But Webber's roots were firmly embedded in the romanticism of such"
"recordings include his BRIT Award-winning Elgar Cello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin (chosen as the finest ever version by ""BBC Music Magazine""), the Dvořák Cello Concerto with Václav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten's Cello Symphony and Walton's Cello Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Several CDs are of short pieces for Universal Classics including ""Made in England / Gentle Dreams"", ""Cello Moods"", ""Cradle Song"" and ""English Idyll"". Lloyd Webber premiered the recordings of more than 50"
"could reach, when money problems, alcoholism and tragedy were at bay. One author states that All the Sad Young Men contained some of his most profound, if not most widely known, short stories, stating that “""The Adjuster"" looks at the ramifications of a woman's decision to marry for money and what happens when her husband and child fall ill and she has to assume responsibility she never imagined” and that “""All the Sad Young Men"" stands out as a bridge between ""Gatsby"" and ""Tender Is the Night”"" widely considered to be his best works, revealing a deepening of his talent"
"his later years, besides his art collection (see ""Later Life,"" below), was the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical version of ""Sunset Boulevard"". Wilder's directorial choices reflected his belief in the primacy of writing. He avoided, especially in the second half of his career, the exuberant cinematography of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles because, in Wilder's opinion, shots that called attention to themselves would distract the audience from the story. Wilder's pictures have tight plotting and memorable dialogue. Despite his conservative directorial style, his subject matter often pushed the boundaries of mainstream entertainment. Once a subject was chosen, he would begin"
"a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's ""Theatreland"". Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. Seeing a West End show is a common tourist activity in London. A prolific composer of musical theatre in the 20th century, Andrew Lloyd Webber has been referred to as ""the most commercially successful composer in history"". His musicals have dominated the West End for a number of years and have travelled to Broadway in New York City and around the"
"#3. This success propelled Marti Webb into a household name, despite being in the theatrical business for twenty years. She followed this with a number of her own albums and two further top 20 singles. Lloyd Webber decided the piece could work well on the stage if paired with another one-act piece. He previously had considered writing a brief operatic piece about the friendship between Giacomo Puccini and Ruggiero Leoncavallo, going so far as to compose a melody that would later become ""Memory"", but decided it would not fit well with 'the girl's' saga. He tried adapting the Charles Dickens"
"performances from writers such as Frank Rich, then chief theatre critic of the New York Times, who wrote, ""Braden Danner…tower[s] over most child actors."" Critics often noted the connection that Danner shared with the audience, writing: ""Braden Danner…is embraced by the audience,"" eliciting ""sobs from a willing audience,"" as he walks ""away with the most heart-tugging scene of all."" ""Starlight Express"" became the newest Andrew Lloyd Webber success, and ""Les Miserables"" went on to win eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and has become one of the most successful and most performed musicals in history. The success of the original"
"for a small audience of people like myself, who are well-educated, worldly, sceptical and snobbish (meaning that they rank good taste over bad)"". His ten-novel sequence ""Alms for Oblivion"" is usually regarded as his best achievement - A. N. Wilson thought it ""the jolliest roman-fleuve"" - though it is likely that he gained wider public recognition for his TV work, especially the adaptation of ""The Pallisers"" (1974) and ""Edward and Mrs Simpson"" (1978). As he grew older his rate of output lessened, and there was deterioration in its quality, but he was still being published in the late 1990s, his"
"he had played for more than thirty years. In March 2015, he was announced as Principal of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Lloyd Webber received the Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum in 1998 and a Classic FM Red Award for outstanding services to music in 2005. He won the Best British Classical Recording in 1986 at the Brit Awards for his recording of Elgar's Cello Concerto with Sir Yehudi Menuhin and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 1994 and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Hull, Plymouth"
"Aspects of Love (novel) Aspects of Love is a novel by author David Garnett centering on the loves of a young soldier named Alexis Golightly, his uncle George Dillingham, and the beautiful actress Rose Vibert from whom neither man could escape. It was originally published in 1955. In 1989 this book served as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of the same name. Alexis, a young Englishman recently expelled from school, enlists in the army. He falls in love with a beautiful French actress named Rose Vibert, who later abandons him to marry his uncle, an older, more learned"
"at The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in April 2008. Having achieved great popular success in musical theatre, Lloyd Webber was referred to by ""The New York Times"" in 2001 as ""the most commercially successful composer in history."" In 2002 he turned producer, bringing the musical ""Bombay Dreams"" to London. With music by Indian Music composer A.R. Rahman and lyrics by Don Black, it ran for two years at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. A revised Broadway production at the Broadway Theatre two years later ran for only 284 performances. On 16 September 2004, his production of ""The Woman in White"""
"of the music and most of the lyrics to the Tony-nominated musical ""Grand Hotel"" in 1989, which was Tony-nominated for best show, best score and another two Drama Desk Awards for music and lyrics. His musical version of the novel ""The Phantom of the Opera"" entitled ""Phantom"" (not to be confused with Andrew Lloyd Webber's version) has enjoyed numerous productions in the U.S. and around the world. He has also written a number of other Off-Broadway musicals, including ""Death Takes a Holiday"", nominated for eleven Drama Desk Awards; ""December Songs"", a song cycle commissioned by Carnegie Hall for its centennial"
"Wilmer's Twitter handle was circulated within articles where he was quoted as the first person to discover the in app browser for Facebook. He is also recognised for presenting online content for BBC News. Wilmer has been part of various teams who have been nominated and won a variety of awards. In 2015, as part of the BBC Trending team Wilmer won a Webby Award for Social: News and information 2015. In 2016, as part of an ABC Nightline and BBC digital documentary partnership, Wilmer was awarded an honorary Webby Award for Online Film & Video, Documentary Series. Henry Wilmer"
"musicals including ""The Phantom of the Opera"" and ""Song and Dance"", as well as the mass Requiem, which was written and composed for Lloyd Webber's father. In 1985, Brightman's recording of ""Pie Jesu"" was a strong commercial success, selling 25,000 copies on the first day of release and peaking at number 3, despite the lyrics being in Latin. With classical music permeating the Lloyd Webber household (Brightman was in heavy operatic training at the time), Lloyd Webber was moved to write the Requiem Mass as a tribute to his father. Its Manhattan premiere, starring Plácido Domingo and Brightman, was filmed"
"theatre. He also had originally set music to ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" at the age of 15. In 1965, Lloyd Webber was a Queen's Scholar at Westminster School and studied history for a term at Magdalen College, Oxford, although he abandoned the course in the winter of 1965 to study at the Royal College of Music and pursue his interest in musical theatre. In 1965, when Lloyd Webber was a 17-year-old budding musical-theatre composer, he was introduced to the 20-year-old aspiring pop-song writer Tim Rice. Their first collaboration was ""The Likes of Us"", a musical based on the"
"several children's books including ""Opposites"", ""More Opposites"", and ""The Disappearing Alphabet."" Continuing the tradition of Robert Frost and W. H. Auden, Wilbur's poetry finds illumination in everyday experiences. Less well-known is Wilbur's foray into lyric writing. He provided lyrics to several songs in Leonard Bernstein's 1956 musical, ""Candide"", including the famous ""Glitter and Be Gay"" and ""Make Our Garden Grow."" He also produced several unpublished works including ""The Wing"" and ""To Beatrice"". His honors included the 1983 Drama Desk Special Award and the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of ""The Misanthrope"", both the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the"
"and found the book and the musical took off from there. Leroux's novel was more than just a mystery and had romance and other genres, that would appeal to more audiences. Webber used accounts from within the novel in the musical as well such as the real-life event of the chandelier falling. This musical even after being produced in the mid-80s, has still remained popular with people today. The musical has received more than fifty awards and is seen by many as being the most popular musical on Broadway. Leroux's novel was created into two silent films during the history"
"by Gregor Jordan and starring Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom and Naomi Watts. ""The Shark Net"" was adapted for an ABC-BBC-produced international television mini-series and a BBC radio drama. ""The Bodysurfers"" also became a successful ABC and BBC TV mini-series and was adapted for radio and the theatre. Drewe was also the editor of two short-story anthologies, ""The Penguin Book of the Beach"" and ""The Penguin Book of the City"", and edited ""Best Australian Stories"" in 2006 and 2007 and ""Best Australian Essays"" in 2010. He has been a ""Sydney Morning Herald"" film critic, and his play, ""South American Barbecue"", was"
"17, January 1994. ""Taylor's score has several attractive songs . . . They're all sung as if they are the hottest songs to come from the West End."" - Show Music, USA, autumn 1993 edition. Success! Success! is a musical by Bernard J. Taylor that was first recorded in 1993 as a studio concept album featuring various West End performers including Lon Satton (who created the role of Poppa in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express), Claire Moore, Kathryn Evans, Jessica Martin and Maurice Clarke. It had its world premiere stage production in Rotherham, Yorkshire, in 1995. Following are extracts of"
"produced ""Andrew Lloyd Webber The Musical"", described as ""a bizarre mix of spoof and satire"" by ""The Virgin Encyclopedia of Stage & Film Musicals"". A pastiche of the life of top musical composer Lloyd Webber, in loving homage to Mel Brooks' The Producers, it ran in a variety of fringe venues across London with several casts. Awde's 1994 follow-up ""Margaret Thatcher: The Musical"" failed to find backing. Awde's other stage works are ""Eros and the Skull"" (Bloomsbury Theatre, London, 1988) – a multi-created one-man show about the French poet Baudelaire – and ""Semtex & Lipstick"" (King's Head Theatre, London, 1992)"
"in London. Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions, including national tours, of the Lloyd Webber musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group. Lloyd Webber is also the president of the Arts Educational Schools London, a performing arts school located in Chiswick, West London. He is involved in a number of charitable activities, including the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Nordoff Robbins, Prostate Cancer UK and War Child. In 1992 he set up the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation which supports the arts, culture and heritage in the UK. Andrew Lloyd Webber was born in Kensington, London, the"
"curates the article on zarzuela (2016). He is also an advisory editor and contributor to the ""Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"", having written many entries including those on his Manchester Grammar School contemporary Steven Pimlott, and Joyce Hatto. Webber has since been featured on British TV's Channel 4 and BBC Radio 4, in documentaries about Hatto, ""the fraudster pianist"". As an actor, he has worked in England's West End and Repertory Theatre, creating the role of Owl in the first stage version of ""Winnie-the-Pooh"" (London Royalty Theatre and national tour) and taking part in world and/or international premières of plays"
"to the BBC for a second term as head of Music and Arts, creating such long-running strands as ""Young Musician of the Year"" and ""Arena"", until 1981, when aged 50 he resigned from management to concentrate on direction: he stayed with the BBC until 1988 as editor of performance programmes and director of Proms and opera relays from the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, and Scottish Opera (Bernstein's ""Candide""). For Omnibus he directed the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem in 1985 and produced The Making of West Side Story. Freelance work had begun in 1970, when"
"on the BBC children's channel CBeebies as part of ""Bedtime Hour"". In 2006, Norton hosted the BBC One series ""How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?"" in which Andrew Lloyd Webber tried to find a lead actress for his West End version of ""The Sound of Music"". Norton has subsequently presented the three follow-up series: ""Any Dream Will Do"" in 2007, in which a group of males competed to win the role of Joseph in the West End production of ""Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat""; ""I'd Do Anything"" in 2008, in which Lloyd Webber seeks to find the"